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Idea Sbagliata: Genio e follia. Con Claudio Paolucci e Luigi Lobaccaro
No full textGenio e follia: mito o realtà? In questa puntata smonteremo lo stereotipo del "genio folle", proponendo nuove e sorprendenti prospettive su uno dei legami più discussi nella storia dell'arte e del pensiero, un mito profondamente radicato nella nostra cultura.
Ospiti: Claudio Paolucci, professore ordinario di Filosofia del linguaggio e Semiotica e Luigi Lobaccaro, assegnista di ricerca in Semiotica.
La puntata nasce nell’ambito di SACre-D progetto di ricerca finanziato dal bando PRIN 2022 Prot. 2022PFSJNW CUP J53D2300823000
Claudio Paolucci, Strutturalismo e interpretazione, Milano: Bompiani 2010
No full textIl contributo è una recensione al volume di Claudio Paolucci, Strutturalismo e interpretazione (Milano: Bompiani 2010
Anna Maria Lorusso – Claudio Paolucci – Patrizia Violi (eds.), <i>Narratività. Problemi, analisi, prospettive</i>
Full text linkReview of the book Narratività. Problemi, analisi, prospettive, edited by Anna Maria Lorusso, Claudio Paolucci and Patrizia Violi
Tra ordine e avventura. A proposito del libro su Umberto Eco di Claudio Paolucci
Full text linkArticolo di approfondimento sui temi della semiotica echiana a partire dal libro di Claudio Paolucci su Umberto Ec
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics: The point of view of semiotics
Full text linkIn this paper I will try to outline the reasons why, in order to understand the life and the nature ofmeaning, the semiotic tradition has always thought that it was better not to separate semantics and pragmatics. I will first reconstruct the history of this idea, grounded in Pragmatism and in Structural Linguistics. Later, I will deal with its first formulation in A Theory ofSemiotics by Umberto Eco. In the second part of the paper, I will work on the idea by Ferdinand de Saussure that meanings are values, that is, indeterminate entities whose identity is determined only through reciprocal determination. I will claim that this idea is the importation in linguistics of Leibniz’s principles of the differential calculus. In the final part of the paper, I will apply this idea to the distinction between semantics and pragmatics, claiming that meanings are better understood through a theory ofmodes of existence. If we understand the differential nature of meaning, we can see that meanings live only through the using of the expressions and these variations contribute to offer stability within the transformations, without creating a stable object defined by its properties and e
"Sfuggire ai cliché". Gli stereotipi tra enciclopedia e soggettività nel linguaggio
No full textIn this article, I will argue that stereotypes are the starting point for building subjectivity inside language through the act of enunciation. I will show the double dimension – virtual and actual – of stereotypes. This double dimension makes stereotypes the encyclopaedic product of intersubjectivity that defines the background of our perception of the world. In the end, starting from Umberto Eco’s semiotics and from enunciation theory, I will show that stereotypes are not the product of an average competence nor of inauthenticity, but the effect of a «being-together», offering us a certain image of affairs to which we try to concatenate our own image
Logic of Relatives and Semiotics in Peirce. From the “Subject-Predicate” Inferential Structure to the Synechistic Topology of Interpretation
No full textCharles Sanders Peirce is known to be the inventor of many concepts and theoretical
objects that have shaken the foundations of the disciplines in which they
were developed: the theory of existential graphs and the triadic system in logic;
the set theory founded on a Leibnizian conception of infinitesimals in mathematics;
the synechistic theory of continuum in metaphysics, etc. Peirce is also
well known to have invented ex-novo whole disciplines, semiotics for example.
Peirce is also renowned for having formulated very original theories of interpretation,
action, perception, and so on. What is known less – and what I would
like to show here – is that Peirce had also something to do with that epistemological
movement that in the 20th century would be called “structuralism”,
grounded in the study of language. In this paper I would like to show: (i) that
Peirce used to call “Logic of Relatives” this “structuralist” analysis of language;
(ii) that this Logic of Relatives is exactly what – approximately 80 years later –
would be called “actantial syntax” by two renowned French structuralists,
Lucien
Tesnière and A.J. Greimas; (iii) how this structuralist foundation of
language and propositions radically changed Peirce’s conception of semiotics,
previously founded on the theory of inference of his anti-Cartesian essays
and on the “subject-predicate” structure of the proposition found in “On a New
List of Categories”; (iv) how this Logic of Relatives represents the condition of
possibility of Peircean synechism and of his new phenomenological theory of
categories
Per un’etologia semiotica del riso di superiorità. Un’ipotesi pragmatista ed evoluzionista
No full textThe oldest, and still the most popular philosophical theory of laughter, is the Superiority theory, arguing that laughter is a uniquely-human behavior triggered by a feeling of superiority. Similar to other influential theories of laughter, however, the superiority theory should be better defined as a theory of humor, hence unable to account for the several non-humoristic, social contexts where typically laughter is tipically produced. In this paper we present an alternative approach to laughter, grounded on semiotics and ethology. We argue that laughter is, first and foremost, a means for social bonding and communication that evolved for boosting basic forms of affiliation. We provide psychological, neuroscientific and ethological evidence supporting such Social-bonding theory of laughter. Finally, we show how the cases prototypically discussed by supporters of the Superiority theory can be interpreted as a peculiar type of exaptation of laughter, as defined by the Social-bonding theory
"Whereof One Cannot Theorize, Thereof One Must Narrate”
No full textIn this paper, I would like to try to shed light on the passage Umberto Eco made
from his philosophic-semiotic work to the literary one, which occurred in the nineteen
eighties and continued, in an extremely significant parallel of the author’s
intellectual parable, up until his death at the beginning of 2016. Indeed, we’ll
see that the passage between different cultural domains, of which the “semiotics-
novel” shift is but a particularly successful and fortunate step in Eco’s career,
embodies the very essence of his thinking and intellectual legacy. Before it, other
shifts had taken place, as hallmarks of a very personal research style with which
Umberto Eco had literally revolutionised Italian culture. The shift from theory
to narration will bring this paradigm, which was already very distinctive and
characterising of Eco’s work, on the world stage, producing one last, influential
assemblage. Then, in order to understand the meaning of this passage, which
as we’ll see later is the core of Eco’s thinking and poetics, one must consider the
state of Italian literature when Eco began writing, that is, in the mid-Fifties
Forme del linguaggio e forme del pensiero. Per una riformulazione del principio empirico
Full text linkL’obiettivo del saggio è quello di proporre una serie di riflessioni
sul rapporto tra forme del linguaggio e forme del pensiero attraverso la
teoria hjelmsleviana delle forme del contenuto, con l’obiettivo di arrivare
a una riformulazione del principio empirico hjelmsleviano.
Nella prima parte provo a ripensare alcuni tratti costitutivi dell’epistemologia
dello strutturalismo che sono stati profondamente sottovalutati –
se non addirittura non compresi o dimenticati – in pressoché tutte le critiche
che lo strutturalismo ha ricevuto dalla linguistica chomskyana
prima e dalla linguistica cognitiva poi. In seguito, individuo nella teoria
hjelmsleviana delle forme del contenuto la chiave per porre il problema
tra le forme del linguaggio e del pensiero e provo a proporne una riformulazione
in direzione della teoria della complessità.
Nella seconda parte, connetto il lavoro fatto nella prima parte con le
riflessioni hjelmsleviane sulle opposizioni partecipative come “struttura
generale delle correlazioni linguistiche” e propongo a partire da esse e
dalla teoria delle forme del contenuto una nuova definizione di struttura
che voglio conforme alla teoria della complessità, al fine di (ri)costruire
una teoria strutturalista che possa farsi efficacemente carico degli attuali
problemi in scienze del linguaggio e in scienze della cognizion
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